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DreamHost Newsletter – July 2008

New Easy One-Click: Media Wiki DreamHost introduces Media Wiki (the software behind sites as Wikipedia) as an Easy One-Click install. The software has long existed as a One-Click install, but in easy mode both installation, upgrades and maintenance is 100% handled by DreamHost at the cost of fewer customization options [...]

DreamHost Now Hosts 700,000 Domains

The stats from WebHosting.Info has just been updated, and shows that DreamHost is now hosting more than 700,000 domains. It’s just 7 months since they passed 600,000 domains and almost exactly a year since they passed half a million domains, It’s great to see that billing errors and network troubles aside, DreamHost continues their steady [...]

DreamHost offers Passenger / mod_rails

The Ruby on Rails deployment tool we wrote about a while ago has just been launched. To enable Passenger, edit any of your fully hosted domains or add a new domain from the Manage Domains area in the web panel, and check the Ruby on Rails Passenger (mod_rails) checkbox. When you then point that domain’s web [...]

DreamHost Newsletter - May 2008

New One-Click Install: phpBB Forum phpBB is now available as a One-Click Install. DreamHost offers phpBB both in an easy-mode and advanced-mode. In easy-mode DreamHost will handle all upgrades, but you won’t be able to customize your theme or add plug-ins. New One-Click Install: OpenX [...]

Book Review: AJAX and PHP

I recently advertised for readers wanting to review a number of books I was offered by Packt Publishing. The fourth review in the series is written by Arthus Erea, who has read AJAX and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications. Review of “AJAX and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications” Review by Arthus Erea We’ve [...]

DreamHost Nominated Most Democratic Workplace

DreamHost has updated their frontpage to show they have been recognized by WordBlu as one of the most democratic workplaces in 2008. Guess WordBlu haven’t seen What You Get When You Work at DreamHost…

DreamHost Testing New Rails Deployment

Apparently DreamHost have been beta testing Phusion Passenger - a new and interesting mod_rails deployment tool - and so involved in the development, that they are mentioned in the release notes. According to their website, Phusion Passenger makes deployment of applications built on the Ruby on Rails web framework a breeze, because: Deployment is only a matter [...]

Gmail at DreamHost

DreamHost has just enabled an option to use Google’s Gmail for email on domains hosted with DreamHost. The new option is available in the Control Panel under Mail - Custom MX / Gmail. If you move your email to Gmail you will get: Gmail’s renowned interface as your webmail, but at http://mail.yourdomain.com POP3/IMAP/SMTP access (as before), but now [...]

Book Review: Learning Joomla! 1.5 Extension Development

A while ago I advertised for readers wanting to review a number of books I was offered by Packt Publishing. There was quite a bit of interest and I had to randomly select three readers to receive one of the books. The third reader to get a review published is Robert Parker, who has read [...]

DreamHost Newsletter - March 2008

A very short newsletter this time: Easy zenphoto One-Click DreamHost now offers zenphoto as a hosted application. When you install zenphoto as a hosted application, you don’t have to worry about upgrading the software, bandwidth usage, disk usage, etc., since it all runs from DreamHost’s server (vs. your own shared server). The downside is that you won’t [...]

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